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SUBMITTER: Berrios J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4754338 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Berrios Janet J Stamatakis Alice M AM Kantak Pranish A PA McElligott Zoe A ZA Judson Matthew C MC Aita Megumi M Rougie Marie M Stuber Garret D GD Philpot Benjamin D BD
Nature communications 20160212
Motivated reward-seeking behaviours are governed by dopaminergic ventral tegmental area projections to the nucleus accumbens. In addition to dopamine, these mesoaccumbal terminals co-release other neurotransmitters including glutamate and GABA, whose roles in regulating motivated behaviours are currently being investigated. Here we demonstrate that loss of the E3-ubiquitin ligase, UBE3A, from tyrosine hydroxylase-expressing neurons impairs mesoaccumbal, non-canonical GABA co-release and enhances ...[more]